Is this worth reading or should I read Arabian Nights instead?

>pre Islamic Middle East: god tier folklore with amazing supernatural beasts and monsters with amazing heroes and heroines
>post-Islamic Middle East: praise allah brother :^)

Because it's the teachings of Satan.

>is this worth reading
Yes.
>should I read Arabian Nights instead?
Yes.

read "Speech of the Birds" by Farid ud-Din instead.

It is the most perfect book in the history of humanity. Beautiful and transcendent.

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How accurate is this amazon review?

>hurr its bad because it's not compatible with Western liberal slave morality
fucking infidels

Also, the Quran is untranslatable. You NEED to read it in Arabic to truly understand the teachings of Muhammad (peace be upon him). Westerners only distort the Quran to suit their own ideological purposes, and Western translations are the main source of confusions and misunderstandings of the Quran (for example how Westerners believe that it "contradicts itself")

>Islam
>not compatible with slave morality

u wot m8

t. Abu Mahmoud Ahmeksplodalot

read the bhagavad gita instead if you want an actualy well written meaningful religious text, that isnt dog shit

>incompatible with western slave mentality
>a religion literally called "submission"
this is some well crafted bait

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>not waiting til you die to read the Koran so you can read the original in the afterlife
Fucking plebs I swear

Like it more than the bible desu.

Is there an annotated version fit for the first time English language reader, the way the Oxford Annotated Bible is? One that provides an introduction to each chapters so that I can get an idea before I dive in?

Dont forget
>pre-islamic middle east: Women cuckold men.

Kek

The Study Quran

>The Study Quran
sure, if he wants to get a perennialist take on the Quran.

academia.edu/24894666/The_Study_Quran_Review_Haddad_02Mar2016_MWBR

The cool thing about it is that all scientific ideas in the book have actually been proven recently and there could be more in this book that we don't know yet

Like the stuff copied from the Greeks? Including the inaccurate scientific ideas?
youtube.com/watch?v=0XLg-SRGMNk&t=7s
youtube.com/watch?v=y8A9DEeglXI

This is the only answer.

>Islam quite literally means "submission"
What did he mean by this

He said it's not Western slave morality, not not Middle Eastern slave morality.

Islam literally means submission, as in submission to Allah.

ITT: /pol/io OP samefags and baits Veeky Forums yet again

>how Westerners believe that it "contradicts itself")
Even muslim scholars know it contradicts itself, Ahmed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naskh_(tafsir)

it's worth reading only in arabic language
the translated language aren't well made and koran is close to poetry so it's better in its orignial language

>speaks arabic
>prays towards arabic land
>adopts arabic pre-islamic traditions

More like submission to arabs.

You need to read the study Quran then

>the study Quran
see

Despite its flaws it is still the best Quran available in English.

also nearly every sect of Islam is shit

>that pic
That's not a mainstream view.

>implying perrenialism hasn't been a part of Islam since the beginning

There is no more influential we wuz than Muhammad, who insisted from the start that every prophet and Christ were Muslim. He ain't bullshittin!

>Despite its flaws it is still the best Quran available in English.
pic related is much more in line with Muslim Orthodoxy.

forgot pic

Yeah, Muslim orthodoxy is shit. No thanks Abdullah

>There is no more influential we wuz than Muhammad, who insisted from the start that every prophet and Christ were Muslim.
What that meant is that other religions such as Christianity and Judaism were corruptions of Islamic teachings. Not that every religion is valid.

it's more accurate than the modern perrenialist interpretation pushed by Nasr.

Perrenialism as a philosophy doesn't necessarily mean that every religion is correct, but that they share a single universal truth, but Nasr definitely leans towards a more expansive view, I'll admit.

Yeah, Orthodoxy is shit. It needs to update itself like Christianity did.

Because it's a backwards religion

>Also, the Quran is untranslatable. You NEED to read it in Arabic to truly understand the teachings of Muhammad
Values so holy that they can't be spread through other languages? Another reason why Islam is bullshit.